Late Agriculture. the Weather, Agricultural and Pastoral
The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 660
Hot winds and showery, muggy weather have fallen to the lot of the coast during the week, while inland districts in several instances have been visited by frosts. Some parts of the West have received good showers, and districts…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 19
IN the lecture on wool, delivered by Mr. Trebeck before the Royal Society of New South Wales last week, he thus described the qualities a good merino combing wool should possers:—…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 655
During the past dozen years several stud farms have been established within easy reach of the metropolis, and in the fore rank of these stands Mount Gilead, which is situated near Campbelltown, on the Southern railway. Mr. E. B…
Continued on Trove, page 655 →Latest Pastoral Intelligence. [By Eiectric Telegraph.] Tamworth
Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 38
Messrs. Nathan Cohen and Co. report:—In the fat cattle market there is a fair supply from middling1 to inferior quality. Prices averaged from 16s to 20a per 1001b. We sold Lannagan's bullocks from £6 to £8 In;…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 19
IN Their circular, dated London, August26, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company disouas the state of the wool Bales then a week opened, and the prospects of the wool trade, [?] ather fully, When the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 19
MONDAY next will see the commencement of the regular colonial sales of the clip of 1881. There have boon sales already, but they w [?] e of odds and ends, the clearings up of last year, and small parcels of…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 20
ALTHOUGH from its very nature, as the "Narrabri Herald" observes, concerning the stripping machine. it cannot come into use for harvesting all wheat crops, it is a contrivance which has much to…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 19
This matter of classifying w [?] ol, or so arranging it [?] to got the fullest possible price, is receiving much attention from the colonial Press. The "Narrabri Herald" says, truly, it is only of lesser importance to…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 668
Following our annual custom, we review some of the more prominent features of pastoral affairs during the past 12 months. The year has been for the most part exceptionally dry and trying; indeed, over wide districts rain has been absent for so…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 19
THE commencement of another wool season is a fitting time for describing and illustrating the immense advances made in the wool and produce businoss in Sydney…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 12
MESSRS. Goldsbrough and Co. report:—The opening sale of the season was held at our warehouses yesterday before the largest attendance of buyers hitherto seen in Australia, English, Scotch…
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Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 17
We shall be happy to receive from practical farmers such suggestions as to the treatment of land crops and stock as their experience has proved to be useful. By writing for this journal…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 21
IN an article upon the severe effects of frost upon tho solonial sugar cane, the "Northam Star" again ocens the question whether the crop could not be cultivated systematically as an annual. It is so…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 October 1881 · page 37
FLOUR MARKET,—There is not much doing in this market, although country brands of New South Wales, Adelaide, and Victorian have been offering at a reduction without meeting with buyers; city…
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Evening News · Wednesday 19 October 1881 · page 3
The harvest of the year now beginning to wane has been almost wholly spoiled by untimely showers. Farmers have lost heavily in previous years by the same cause which new disappoints…
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Evening News · Thursday 20 October 1881 · page 3
These important interests receive special attention in the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL. Correspondents and artists and artists in the respective districts from the office of the journal, and its pages…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 37
The opening —wool sale of the season took place at Messrs. Mort and Co.'s warehouses on Wednesday. There was a large attendance of buyers, including represontatives of English and American firms,…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 694
National Agricultural Society of Victoria, November 3 and 4. Queensland National Association Wool Show. January 2, 1882…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 19
IN the paper road by Mr. P. N. Trebeek, before the members of the Boyal Society, it was stated that the Bathurst Bur was rapidly spreading, and that this and other burs mentionod spoiled wool for high class…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 October 1881 · page 19
LIFO on a sheep station is, as rule, anything but exciting. There are, of course, matters connected with the working of a large sheep property which require constant supervision, and which keep…
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